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Paul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · Mar 7

Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight

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Rachel Neugarten @rachelneugarten.bsky.social · Mar 6

OPEN biodiversity DATA ALERT: iNaturalist has released range data for 100k+ taxa: www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918 🌍🧪

Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa with the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset

A Major Milestone for Biodiversity Mapping We passed a major milestone with today’s update to iNaturalist’s Computer Vision and Geomodel—100,000 modeled taxa! To mark this achievement, we’re excited t...

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · Mar 6

Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature

Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...

www.nature.com

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Mar 6

So I read this as 'parents'...

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · Mar 5

Patents should expire after 2-3 years max. Just because you invented something doesn't mean you're the best custodian of it.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Mar 3

I will close the letter for signatures at 17:00 today (UK time). Last chance to voice your support before this evening's meeting of the Royal Society.

Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 19

There are now over 3000 signatories to my letter asking the Royal Society to explain why it has taken no action and said nothing about evident contraventions of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS.
forms.gle/dBGaHk7SYUNA...

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

forms.gle

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 28

🌍 The resumed 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity #COP16Resumed has concluded with a historic agreement to enhance global biodiversity monitoring.

Muchas gracias Colombia for your leadership in this crucial meeting! 🇨🇴 #KMGBF #Biodiversity

Governments agree on the way forward to mobilise the resources needed to protect biodiversity for people and planet

Governments agreed, on 27 February 2025, in Rome on the strategy to raise the funds needed to protect biodiversity and achieve the action targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ...

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 28

🔄 How do we turn raw biodiversity data into actionable insights for policy and conservation?

Jory Griffith shows how Bon in a Box #BiaB can be used to support the calculation of biodiversity indicators📊

Watch her speak at the @wildlabs.bsky.social series:
youtu.be/YXp9xlDvY8I?...

Jory Griffith: GEO BON

YouTube video by WILDLABS.NET

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Feb 26

Our 1st Biodiversity Science-Policy 'starter pack' is now full (150 accounts). Access at: go.bsky.app/LjV86zg

There's a 2nd starter pack already filling up: go.bsky.app/GzM8eok

NB: these are mainly IPBES authors & stakeholders regularly engaged with IPBES work. Please follow & share widely! 🌍🧪

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 25

In the meantime, you can still add your voice to the call for the RS to stand up for its values, as over 3300 members of the scientific community have already done. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

An open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values | Reciprocal Space

occamstypewriter.org

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Feb 26

Or a finger?

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Feb 23

The line between “Hear no evil” and “Speak evil” can be a very fine one. (H/t @jcsvenning.bsky.social)

Matt Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social · Feb 23

Don't look up!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’

US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

www.theguardian.com

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · Feb 23

A parable about reforming institutions and why it should be approached with a degree of caution.

Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Feb 23

Once upon a time, some villagers came across a large, ornate wooden box in the local woods. On the side of the box was a message:

“Whatever money you put in this box will, in future, grow to become 2.5 times larger.”

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 17

Now over 2700 signatories and still rising. Please keep sharing.

Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 14

Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Feb 13

Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...

Geospatial Analyst:South Kensington

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Feb 13

Is it just me, or have the recent episodes of reality not been as good as in the earlier seasons?

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 13

I don’t think it’s good enough for the Royal Society to keep pushing the line that “issues raised about individual fellows are dealt with in confidence”, because Musk’s problematic actions are a matter of public record.

So please keep signing & sharing the letter: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/

Reciprocal Space | Occam's Typewriter

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Feb 13

New review: #Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms

"we show negative responses of the growth, reproduction, behaviour and other biomarkers within terrestrial and aquatic systems"

"results question the sustainability of current pesticide use"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms - Nature Communications

Pesticides affect a diverse range of non-target species and the magnitude of this hazard remains only partially understood. Wan et al. found that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have negative ...

www.nature.com

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Feb 13

Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...

Geospatial Analyst:South Kensington

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Feb 13

More than their self-confidence, I envy them for their lack of climate anxiety

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · Feb 13

I envy climate change deniers. Imagine believing you know better than the entire scientific community. What must it be like to be walking around with that level of confidence in yourself.

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Feb 13

Thanks for doing this! Signed and shared.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 13

Thanks to the more than *1100* members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over.

Please keep signing & sharing.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

docs.google.com

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David Cooper @hdavidcooper.bsky.social · Feb 3

As I move on after more than 23 years working with CBD colleagues, government delegates, indigenous peoples & local communities, women & youth, civil society, business & academia, I am proud of what we have achieved together; immensely grateful for the opportunity to serve multilateralism. #KMGBF

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David Roberts @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social · Jan 30

Good for Britain’s neonicotinoid ban, giving bees priority over sugar beet www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good for Britain’s neonicotinoid ban, giving bees priority over sugar beet | Letters

Letters: Asher Minns writes that farmers have been incentivised to grow a crop that causes obesity, while Prof Richard Evershed says they should turn their skills to growing genuinely nutritious food

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · Jan 29

good news for the day: amazon deforestation down for the second year in a row

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · Jan 29

If you're an early-career researcher outside the UK and want to come work with my at the @nhm-london.bsky.social node of @adriftlab.bsky.social, consider applying for the Royal Society's Newton Fellowships! Deadline 17 March. Get in touch!

royalsociety.org/grants/newto... #ornithology

Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society

This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

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